MORDVINS, inord'vInz, a race of people scattered over the Volga provinces of European Russia and to the south and east of these, and belonging to the Ural-Altaic family. There are two distinct groups, the Ersh or northern and the Moksha or southern, with differences in feature, and the latter of darker hue. They are a well-built, hardy race, and superior to the Russians by whom they are surrounded. Their chief sources of livelihood are cattle-rearing, hunting, fishing and bee-keeping, and they are famous as carpenters and woodworkers. They are nominally Christians, the work of conver sion beginning at the time of the Empress Anna; but their Christian beliefs have been superimposed on remains of the old pagan wor ship. Pop. about 1,000,000.
MORE, taw, Hannah, English moralist: More, taw, Hannah, English moralist: b. Stapleton, neat Bristol, 2 Feb. 1745; d. Clif ton, near Bristol,.7 Sept. 1833. She was edu cated in the seminary in Bristol kept by her elder sisters, and her talents early made her acquainted with Johnson, Burke, Garrick and other literary men of the period. Her first success was as a dramatic writer.
land, Marion, Hearthstones: Hannah More' (1900).
MORE, Louis Trenchard, American eduMore, Louis Trenchard, American edu- cator: b. Saint Louis, 9 April 1870. He studied at Johns Hopkins taking (1895) the degree Ph.D. He was instructor of physics (1896) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and was ap pointed instructor and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Nebraska (1896 1900), becoming professor of physics (1900) and dean (1910-13). He was dean of the Graduate School (1916) at the University of Cincinnati. He has written Limitations of Science' and contributed many articles to the technical press on such subjects as light, electricity, mag netism, ionization and sound.
MORE, Nicholas, English colonist: b. Eng More, Nicholas, English colonist: b. Eng- land: d. Philadelphia, Pa., 1689. He was a phy sician and left a promising career in England to come with William Penn to America in 1682. He was from the first prominent in the affairs of the colony, was president of the first assem bly in 1682 and in that year presiding judge of the courts of Philadelphia. In 1683 he was clerk of the provincial council and the next year was speaker of the assembly. He was appointed first chief justice of the Supreme Court of the province in 1684, and in this position incurred the disapproval of the colony and was im peached for having wielded aan unlimited and arbitrary He retained the confidence of Penn, however, who appointed him in 1686 one of the five commissioners in control of the government.
MORE, Paul Elmer, American author: More, Paul Elmer, American author: b. Saint Louis, Mo., 12 Dec. 1864. He was graduated at Washington University in his na tive city in 1887, studied later at Harvard and was instructor in Sanskrit there for a year and subsequently at Bryn Mawr for two years. He was literary editor of the Independent, 1901-03, and of the New York Evening Post, 1903-14. He also was editor of the Nation from 1909 to 1914. To it he contributed many valuable re views and essays in literary criticism. His fine scholarship and effectiveness of method have placed him in the front rank of American liter ary critics. He has published
Great Re fusal' ; (A Century of Indian Epigrams: chiefly from the Sanskrit of Bhartrihari' (1898) ;